HAPPY BIRTHDAY CIRO FERRARA: 50 MADE IN CHINA BUT DO NOT SHOWN

Ciro Ferrara is 50 years old. The Neapolitan defender reaches the round number after successful years with Napoli and Juventus have rediscovered a new youth in China. Since last July guides the Wuhan Zall, the second Chinese division clubs, with excellent results. Since joining the Wuhan Ferrara moved up from the bottom of the standings until the sixth. The first months in China, however, have not all been plain sailing. The threshold of 50 years Ferrara has in fact told in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, to have had an impact not happy with the environment and the local culture. “I admit that the beginning was hard. The different approach from power supply to training times, the culture of work, the inevitable communication problems. I do not deny that there are also grounds were of high tension, before you tune in to the team. ” Having overcome the initial difficulties, however, the season of its Wuhan has been booming and even the same Ferrara has learned to appreciate China in all its facets. Now it is even fond of a “specialty” of the place. “I learned to appreciate new foods. I tasted the cobra and sincerely I eat with taste fried bees. My co-worker the first time he asked: “Do you eat even the heads?”. “Guagliò but if I raise ‘upside is left!”. Three days after the Champions supersfida between Napoli and Real Madrid, has not failed a comment Ferrara: “Napoli plays beautiful football and is the European team, like minded, of A. At the Bernabeu Real will make the game, there is no doubt, but if you leave too many meters to counterattack of Naples, then it will be fun. I am convinced that Zizou will be even more … Italian in this challenge that I see not so unbalanced “.